This week, I created two rubrics. One rubric was for the written research paper part of the project and the other was for the final product. Using Rubistar was fairly easy, especially since they provided potential criteria ideas for you once you chose the appropriate project from their list. You can also make your own criteria, which I did for the final product since I wanted to have creativity and originality as one of the criteria and that wasn’t something that was included as a possibility for the digital storytelling rubric. The hard part came when I was trying to figure out how to put the rubrics into my wiki. Wiki-site only allows image file to be uploaded, so saving it as a webpage, pdf, or MS Word file didn’t work. I finally found the “make it available online” link and from there, the print link. When you click on the print link, it provides a print preview that’s online and you can use that as a link from the wiki.
I really liked having some criteria suggestions available from the website. Since I’m not teaching yet, I haven’t made very many rubrics and I liked being able to see suggestions for criteria that I hadn’t thought of. Also, if you’re ever in a rush and need a rubric quick, Rubistar is the way to go. It basically creates the rubric for you from the selected criteria because it provides descriptions of the different levels (poor, fair, good, excellent), which can be modified if it doesn’t quite suit what you want. I still have to make the peer evaluation form for those of my students that will be working in groups. I may be able to use the collaborative work skills rubric for this, but I’m not sure. I might make my own form in a different kind of format for this.
Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of creating separate rubrics for different parts of this project. I think that this is a great idea, as you are able to give students more specific criteria for each section of this activity, and you are able to score students based on different areas.
I also used rubistar to create my rubric, and found it to be very user friendly. Have you used rubistar before? I like how this site gives you the option to either create a rubric from scratch or use a template taken from other teacher-made rubrics. There was even a rubric available based on a digital storytelling project.
As a college student do you feel that rubrics make projects more easier from the other (student) point of view? I think that rubrics help give students a better idea of exactly what outcomes they should be producing.
Megan
As a Media Specialist, I have lessons that I teach to my students but I do not have to grade them, so I also have little experience with creating rubrics. I do agree that it would be helpful to have the descriptions of the different levels but I still couldn't make it fit my project. In the end I created my rubric in Excel and made the criteria fit my project. I love the idea of having a peer evaluation form. When students work in groups, it is important to take in to consideration their opinion of how their partners participated in the project. I will definitely include that step in my project.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
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